Ricard Alert Zenón

ricardalert.bsky.social

08 October 2026 15:56

Work led by PhD student @hannohennighausen.bsky.social in collaboration with experiments by Jaime Espina @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social! @mpipks.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social

Ricard Alert Zenón

ricardalert.bsky.social

21 September 2026 07:43

New paper! Inspired by gliding bacteria, we introduce active screws: Particles that self-propel by spinning around their propulsion axis. We show that active screws form active chiral nematics. With Debu Banerjee and @lauritzh.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

mpipks.bsky.social

01 July 2026 10:07

You are cordially invited.

Pierre Haas

lepuslapis.bsky.social

12 June 2026 13:59

New #preprint: "Nonlinear isotropic odd elasticity" arxiv.org/abs/2605.02476 More from the #PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social: revealing some of the surprising nonlinear mechanical behaviour of active, "odd" solids. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Pierre Haas

lepuslapis.bsky.social

12 June 2026 13:59

New #preprint: "Travelling waves of invasion in microbial communities with phenotypic switching" arxiv.org/abs/2605.10420 (I saw ε and expanded for ε ≪ 1 and a brilliant intern, Diego Manso Anda, realised that there was no need to.) @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social